The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1916, Page 18

Che Fy Wiorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 88 to 63 Park Row, jw York, RALPH PULATZER, President, 63 Park Now. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 62 Park Now, { / JOSEPH PULITZER, Ir, Secretary, 65 Vark Row. Tntered at the Post-Office at New York as Second Class Matter. Bubscription Rates to The Evening|For Engiand and the Continent a World for the United States All Countries in the International Postal Union. One Year One Mont ~ VOLUME 67. THE FORMIDABLE OBSTACLE. T" formal answer of the Entente Allies to the peace proposals, put forward by the Central Powers may be delivered at any doubt by the British Prime Minister. move? The nature of the reply has been placed beyond ail! What will be Germany's next Will the German Government turn to the German people and wara them that, since Germany's offers are rejected, all hope of peace is gone and they must therefore nerve themsc!ves to supreme effort and sacrifice for the Fatherland? Or does the German Government mean to respond to a demand < $3.60 /One Year... 120 |One Month moment ae for its terms with just eufficient yielding to secure a further exchy of notes, leading sooner or later to a conference ? The latter is the more ptobable, The German Ambassador at Washington would not be so ready to talk of points which Germany is willing to discuss if Berlin had not committed itself to a programme in which conciliation is to play a part. is to keep What Germany chiefly desires, as we’ have said befo the possibility of peace present from now on to all minds—well ¢«ti mating the power of such a prospect to effect a gradual modifying of demands in the direction of compromise. When the time comes, if the Allied Governments could di é, use| matters directly with the German people events might move with greater swiftness. Tut a militaristic imperialism stands between Whatever happens, the latter may be expected to work long and eraft ily to saye its credit at home and elsewhere Now or later the problem of securing peace is sure to be serionely | complicated by the struggles of Prussianism to protect its pride. tr -——_—__——— Unchanged meutrality, yes. But Secretary Lansing draws | attention to the fact that even the notes of neutrals may penned with a point of steel COAL ROADS STILL PRICE-FIXERS. JLION by the Federal Government to break up tbe monopo-! A listie practices of the anthracite coal roads was begun long} before the current campaign against the cost of living. | Nevertheless a decision at this time from the United States Supreme | Court of the Government's suits against the Reading Company and the Lehigh YdMey Railroad might prove a powerful aid in the fight against the price-boosters, Tresenting the case against the Reading Company, Attorney (ieneral Gregory declares: Their own figures prove that the price of anthracite has increased out of all proportion to the increased cost of pro- duction. According to the figures of the Reading Coal Com- pany itself, the cost per ton of coal mined has increased only 64.8 cents since 1898, whereas the receipts per ton from sales at all points have increased 88 cents on all sizes If, despite the Sherman Anti-Trust act and the Interstate Cow. merce Jaw which forbids railroads to transport their own mining} product, the great coal roads are still able to fix anthracite prices as in former days of outrageous monopoly and extortion, what wonder | that coal dealers and coal speculators boldly try to follow their ex- ample in levying toll on the public. A Federal Grand Jury in this city is now investigating the methods of the coal dealers. the Supreme Court to measure out law and justice to some of the ereat coal producers that contrive under new disguises to carry on the old-time robbery. | t | } ————- 4 -___ | |dren came some dismay they beheld their play- while his little Somehow the Stock Exchange these days reminds us of & pig swimming a stream and cutting his throat with his front feet. | ———_- 9 — —_—_—_ IMPEDING PROSPERITY. country continues to be held up and handicapped by recurring I posed in an effort to clear out its badly choked terminals. From Cleveland and Detroit come reports of increasing blockade and con-| gestion. The railroads are fighting one another for the cars nobody is willing to return, Steamers lie idle at their docks awaiting car- gocs that should have been on board weeks ago. delayed or sent astray in the confusion gyrations in the cost of liv discouraged, What an example of preparedness railroads have furnished for the ext ing. ' And what an argument the the development of every natural artery of commerce! | driver's seat. | kids away N THE midst of unprecedented prosperity the business of the| asked Mast Food supplies are|'* causing extra jumps and| gare to pause ision of inland waterways and | taken ‘th We, Too, Want Peace! - metre, Covrriaht Tie New York Prening World ) lary Slavinsky, who had been told to watch the machine, was doing so lfrom the point of vantage of the | When tho Jarr chil- downstairs it mate thus exalted, sister sat within playing lady. “Mrs, “AW, tle tone with which dear small mi 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, f There could be no better moment for| had explained, to fetch something he was with Smith, wot owns this car, \told us to come down and chase you said Master Jarr, what's the matter witcha’? Slavinsky, In that gen- children 3 pk speak to each other when parents are freight embargoes. This city is still under the ban recently im-| not present Jorr had 1 ; amily tollet case in the Hmousine and had viewed her reflection to it ith gor RS CLARA MUDRIDGE =) ine dissatisfaction no oshe M SMITH was holiday CAME i rned to the little Siavinsky girl and | on Mra. Jarr, ayd ber automo-) wai, “nocky, you can stay in here bile was wailing for Rer before the) vise vou Are my mld and: w door of the apartment bouse where) ay iy my pair.” the Jarrs resided, But never untill spas jittle Slavinaky girl looked this time had its chauffeur left tt} askance at this, and Mise Jarr even to go back to the garage, a9 bO} amped hor foot and eried, "Do you hear me? Fix up my curls!” had forgotten And so Miss Jorr sat bolt upright, pinching her cheeks to male them 8 she had secon Mrw, Clara Mud ridge-Smith do, and the little Slavin n, with that eager in- terest all little girls have to “do w another's hair, to arrange the tim- perilous little Emma Jarr’s coiffure after the manner affected by the lady who owned the automobile they were sitting in 2") neighborhood had clustered around the automobile like flies around a molasses barrel, ‘They amused them- selves flattening their noses against the plate glo in drawing num cals "Gwan, git out tha machine!” ar-| and letters of the alphabet with dirty Willie Jarr. ‘fingers on the varnished panels and wan yerself!" shouted back Mas-! playfully endeavoring to stick pins Slavinaky e chowfer told me| in the tites git in, Me fadder's goin’ to buy! “No, you can't git up here!” Mas- ter Slavinsky was saying, as he ‘This last statement cvused Master! pushed Master Jarr off the runnt e he clashed with| board; “the chowfer is goin’ to learn Industry is balked and enterprise | Master Slavinsky andemployed force) me how to run this awtermobilé! to prove who was In charge of the) “You don’t say ‘learn’ You say machine by right \‘each,’ said Master Jarr, who had Meanwhile little Emma 1 revently corrected on this gram matical question = Dollars and Sense i) Letters From the People ollars and Sense ' r Printing Seo fa, | Hessians Were hired by the American By HL. J. Barrett To the EAitor of The Evening World # to fight against the Britis : 4 Permit me to compliment you on DER |; = $ running the editorial “Finger Print- Inks He's a Yankee, "75 Per Cent, of Inaccurate Scales Give Overweight,” Says This Inspeetor 4 & World of Dec, | Te the buitor of The Evening World | In The Evening World of D af GET CAN'T figure it out," musedyother words, allowing $30 for waste, I am glad to see you come out| Was born in America and also both | i $100 a has {into th ith ch an article. To me this] of my ts Were born in America, T ary Clarkson, dealer in gr worth has vanished into thin air | with such an articl ne th : Where's tt golt My staff is uceu- |. “stunt” of taking finger prints, as tt ls bed know if Tam a Yankee erles apd provisions, ‘Tl have], and honaat, Cd maiobinon than” ‘ now practised by the authorities, ue Beek me wot Yankee be Cause my | q water-tight aystem of accounting, Narkson studied the figures, cord ‘epo! about 4 . andy ere no! porn . ‘ SORA TS Ris NUROES, Ob frag ul ne Die Pere g!™ | ty figures can’t be wrong. And they ly, as though resenting their } ie time to take finger prints 1s when ea or Tho term Yankee his noth-|show that somehow, somewhere, ble impartiality ; a prisoner has been convicted and| #4 te do with parentage, but is ap e's a lea this store that's cost- , ; tocepte sentence, not until, Tadmire| pled to any New Englander, During | ee ea a Mier the mystery was | Toeettitade atthe City Magistrate | se Civil War all Northerners wer A goo round sum every vector of Weights and who refused to hold the five newsies | Sled Yankees by the Southern peo. | month, Either goods out of & Measures called and condemned every PSI Prog aioe wnat ca and so the word came to have 4 ut being charged or money | scale in Clarkson's place because they mire your stand, G, W. HARTING, | Semewhat wider meaning. comes in that doesn't reach me Ways overweiels Neue ‘ NM Neal t doesn’t surprise m ne ine Ais € —Twiee. Wants § Unturted Xmas, My last month's inventory showed me - te Corr: arene To the Kditor of The Kvening W $4. fs on hand, and wmazed prop r, Ou : 0 balite 14 Soe han vile! Reais t "ve tested 01 Kindly settle the following histori-|, Mave yo thought what a fino| here are my figures for this month; || of the Beales itd Magy had { ca) dispute: A says (1) Alsace-Lor-| thing it w he if every one dix arene ) FP) Voight,’ you assume. On the con- : raine Was won by the pingee eat o Stripes | law G0 per ceil, grins (roti ry, ‘only 25 per cent, were con- war of 1870 and held eve Theor wines DAY. y th, ROOK x6 comt madame, ok! z.ato|demned for this reason, 75 per cent., | Hessians were German soldiers hired |W! toward mon!’ is more VWke yours, overweight, Must by the Britisi to fight against the polical of this pas a Old have’ been costing you a pretty rebels in the American Revolution. 1) Glory Re | Net cont melee, now on hand $4,800) penny.” 4 ays (1) Alsace-Lorraine was given | ; Thursday. Now my yesterday's inventory} “Yes, 1 know just about how back to the French in 1870 upon pay- !To the Bultor of Tho Kvening Word should have shown $4,860 on hand,| much,” replied the proprietor, “but it i nent of war indemnity, but won by the — ‘Tell me what day of the week Dec, | minus $30, at the outside, for waste, | never occurred to me where the leak ‘ Germans in the present war, 2 The 80, 1897, fell on. Hk. RK. Aud I find that 1 have but $4,740, in! was.” | 4 By this time all the children of the By Roy L. McC: The Ravin (Before Christmas—and After Poe) By Helen Rowland 1016 by The Crees Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) Republished by Request. nyt NCE upon a midday dreary, while I wandered, weak and wearty Through the quaint and curious mazes of a great department While in doubt I hesitated, hopelessly I contemplated All the silly trash and baubles I had seen go oft B® | fore— Seen and bought—and wished I hadn't—many, many, times before! Silly trash—and nothing more! what, oh, WHAT O “What,” [ muttered, sadly sighing, shall [ be buying— Buying for that man for Christmas? Tell mé, 1 implore!” So fo the clerk I turned then, speaking, “Must T evar i} Bo seeking— “ ~ Seeking vainly something novel for the man that I adore— Something natty, neat and novel for the man | most adore!” Quoth the salesgirl, “Evermore > “Would you like some silk suspenders “O Lord, fend us! Can I find no thing that senders have not sent him o'er and o'er?” “How about a cellarette, or chafing<dish, or tabourette, or-—— Surely there {s nothing better.” “Never, never those!” I awore. “Yet, whatever I may get, it shall be something I'll deplore— Something I shall much deplore!” “Nay!” I cried. Deep into the crowd then plunging, in my desperation lunging Right and left, with foot and elbow, like a lunatic I tore, i Picked up this thing and then that one, dodged a thin man and a fat.one, Tried to keep my feathered hat on, maddened to the very core! F | Tried to keep from ‘being sat on. maddened, saddened to the core— | Maddened, saddened, sick and sore! | Till at last, a clerk beguiling all my sad soul Into smiling, | On the counter something piling, said, “I've just what you'll adore! {See these lovely purple sox! I'll put them in a prefty box—I'll Wrap them up—there’s really nothing that a man would treasure more!™ “Give me those!” I erled then weakly; “give me those—and nothing more!” Simply those—and nothing more!" = ue 12 Out again, and quickly fitting In the subway (never sitting!), Clutohtag wildly at a strap, those awful things I homeward bore, Got them home, the box unbroken. But the only word there spoken, At the sight of that strange token, was, "Great Scott! What are they FOR Not to WEAR, L hope!” [ nodded. And distinctly then be swore Softly but distinctly SWORK! Yet, my Yeart with¥n me aching, and my soul within | Tell me next year Vl be breaking all my records as of y ‘Though he never may put these on, though I've Yet I know dgain next season | shall do ft all once Do It over every Christmas, just as 1 have done before— Do it thus FOR Fifty Boys and Girl | Famous in History ne quaking, re. ’ vost lost my reason, more— S, Fe ht, 191 be The Vreee Dublisiing Co, (The New York Brening Wortd,t ‘O. 30—CYRUS, THE BOY-CONQUEROR, STYAGES, King of Media, dreamed that his new-born grag Cyrus, would one day snateh from him the crown and sceptrd. grown, slow-witted son, “Naw, T won't. Let him get his|very simple method for keeping the dream from coming true Got any money?" gsked Inzy Sla- | own ny,” replied Master He sent for his chief counsellor, Harpagus, and bade him take the baby Vinsky, seeing sooner or later his po-| Whereupon Willie Jarr and » to the nearby mountains and leave him there to be devoured by wild b , sition would be rushed. “The chow-|(he bolder spirits seized 1 {ttle son of his ow Jarpagus had a little soa jo own, And bis heart rebelled agatm or ane vardners about t . | Bepler's meat vas delive to . fer and ma is pardners about the car,| Bepler's meat he was delivering the idea of such @ mu Obediently, he stole Cyrus away, from Anybody that's got a Nobody cent kin git on got 4 customer, and threatened to that ain't a cent n't Master Slavinsky for places in the o bring yy Cyrus as bis own, There seemed to be a dearth of cur-| automobile for all of them. Then cyru In the former's hut! But his imperte rency among the Juvenile population | the chauffeur returned and put tham temper F haet him far above the peasant children who with the exteption of Master Bepler, | all out. | were hia playwnea Lhe other your rs followed him meekly, and . who had some that he had found on the dumbwaiter, He paid his panny and was accorded a seat beside Mas- ter Slavinsky, “see what It costs to have an mobile—eight cents jist to git and then you don’t git a ride, He told his dream to the magi (wise men) of his courtyame in't no. Yo ‘earn’ about] Gimme a cent, Guaste!” cried Mas- ine 0, nh ey Pela ic re ae ® cent, Guaste!” erled Mas they gravely agreed it was a prophecy that Cyrus would beet pile tor Slavinsky "Yos, give him a cent. Don't be| King during his grandfather's lifetime ; 1" gald the butcher's over-| stingy! chimed in Izzy Slavinsky. Astyages fiad no wish to be ousted from the throne, So he bit Oa it down a coal hole untess he puid “Oh, my.” groaned Master Repler; A throw * ; palace. But instead of leaving him in the child to a farmer, paying the man liberally mountains to perish he gave he Jee Quick to Call Himself King him have his own wa royal blood & boy's veins made him qatek advantage of this, When he was only ten years old proclaimed himself king his playmates an ann © formed a mock court, in everything awter- in it, even!" to tak The Fighting W sapons of r can fire used in the wa grains clips le of twenty-four thi Seven Warring Powers) The German Mau- than any other rifle magazine holds five id s. rapid in action, The British rifle is ased by this decision, the King spared life and sent Rim 4! the outcome of the | Persia, where the lad’s parents were living, By way of punishing Hepat South African war, gus’s kindly tr ry, Astyages had the counselor's only son put to deathé It holds tart: by horrible tortures, Hurpagus himsclt was spared, and the counaelle ridges and 18 sighted cecretly vowed revenge on the King who had killed hy son, from 200 to 2,800 Cyrus was tremendously popular in Persia, whieh at that time wap yaras. Median province. WH Cyrus was still a mere boy Harpagus inelted him to urge theTersians into a revolt against Medi The French Lebel Cyrus, who hated h& grandfat re is the longest rifle. 3 Starts Revolt § ) )' 00 WD Py ; Was only too giad The ‘tube magazine Feo Get Throne d ac (ag june an insurrection In Poreig. anilg holds eight cart. | "rn gis betrayed @ large force of the Median (qtope toy. ridge’ ‘he bullet | Cyrus's hands. In a si gre utile (559 B.C.) used in it weighs 198 The Belgian Mau- ir of 1889 holds five cartridges, carried in it cannot be The son of a Median nob graciously permitted him to do the young nobleman resented. the, idea of being bowsdd by a fart He disobeyed the very first comes mand Cyrus gave him, By way of enforcing discipline, Cyrus had the other « boys Whip the offender almost to death The noblems . bawling emi Watnited Sut his litte court. Cyrus: } ding, ran Of to his father, with o ithe story of his be irred the complaint to Astyages. * And Cyrus was br for punishment, ie Astyages heard with amusement the story of the mimic court and gm Cyrus's pretensions to monarchy, ‘Phe ten-year-old boy's beauty and regal.) faster bearing he curiosity of Astyages, who next sent for The fash 7 ; the farmer The farmer was frightened into truthfulne Ho de 4 that was not his gon, but had been turned over to him by the royal counsel rpagus. Harp. threat of death, confessed, ‘The chain of evi was complete, # at first Wagfminded to kill Cyrus, But the boy wan so brave’ and handsome and clever att old scoundrel hesitat By way of strengthening his resolition he consulted the Magl aga This wi y man assured him that Cyrus's im to kingship over the wise. Oia, fulfilled the propheey that he "would be a king during his und that Astyage# had nothing further to f 's Mfes we from the dream time und made Astyages a prisoner, Pua CON UEFem Media. Cyrus Was now proclaimed King of Media and Persia vome true. Ife did not put Astyages to death, but forced th to wait on him henceforth as his The thrill of achievement was | fiw The dream hadc e cruel old maif®* an It Media had been, ung ruler's career d. The ye 80 easy to capture why not the res of conquest had begun, of the world? number reached ten the followls 'To-Day’s | In 1822 Mrs. Judson visited the United 2s a = States and published her “Histary. af, TE first woman to gain renown | JWman Alission,” and by personal ry in foreign lands | contributions: an taste missionary + seltine Judson, who | Rangoon roluenaaie j \ war soon broke é was born in Bradford, Mass,, 127 years| both Mr. and Mra, Judson pi bee jago to-day. In 1812 she by came the | Prisoned, charged with aiding ¢! | bride of the Rey. Adontram Judson, a | !!8h. udson was soc Sa . Mr . | Baptist missionary, and a few days| and she became an angel o later the couple embarked for Calcutta. | the white men, including fre Tusbandi From there they went to Rangoon, in| confined in the terrible “death Prison. Ws the Burmese Empire, to begin their| ‘They were at length rescued by the raissionary labors among the natives, | British, but Mrs. Judson svon sut> It was not until 1819 that the first | cumbed to the offects of the terrore te native convert was baptized, and the! which had been subjected, : Anniversary firing bullets . ae